TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before founding dipp , Jennifer Chen and Mikhail Abramov spent 15 years working as art directors in New York City. During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often riddled with bottlenecks.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2021

often with a smaller financial cushion due to hemorrhaging cash during the pandemic, a new sense of fear that this could happen again, and many employees not wanting to return to the office or dealing with pandemic fallout themselves. Ruminating about all the things that could go wrong in your business or personal life. Want to talk?”

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 12, 2022

Let’s break down the secrets to success behind The New York Times’ The Morning , and what you can learn from it for your own newsletter. Some people say newspapers are dead, but The New York Times (NYT) isn’t taking that lying down. The newsletter, called The Morning , has garnered over 17 million subscribers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Almost exactly a year ago, we interviewed Revel founder and CEO Frank Reig when Revel was on the cusp of expanding into multiple business lines beyond its original scope of providing shared electric mopeds. Revel started its moped business in New York in 2018, and it has since expanded into Miami, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

California has long been ground zero for the new: new technologies, new frontiers, new arts and culture. But I want to start with you, because you actually have a very fascinating story. I think it happened in Florence and Paris and London and New York and Chicago and maybe LA, and then it happened in the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

SOSV this morning announced work on a $50 million HAX facility in Newark, New Jersey focused on growing industrial, healthcare and climate startups. The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. HAX also operates satellites in San Francisco, Tokyo and New York.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Greycroft , the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds. ” We are thrilled to announce the closing of over $1 billion of capital commitments across new funds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

This morning, we’re looking back at just what startups in New York City managed in the first half of the year. We paged through a report from New York City-based Work-Bench, a venture capital group focused on enterprise technology. In recent news, Work-Bench recently raised a new $100 million fund.).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 26, 2022

Nearly 20 participating EO chapters are already reaping the value from this initiative, including EO Toronto, EO New Zealand, EO Brisbane, EO South Florida, EO MEPA Bridge, EO Fort Worth, EO Europe and EO Western New York. no matter how different your businesses are. Jon VanderMeer, EO Atlanta, Kiosk & Display.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners who are developing a new, product, process, or software application – and need startup funding, need to know about the Ben Franklin program. Tech-startups and small manufacturers have been getting their “start” with Ben Franklin Technology Partners for nearly 40 years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

. “Unagi on Demand,” as the offering is called, is kicking off at t he Hoxton Hotel in Los Angeles, as well as Common Luxury Apartments, Nap York Sleeping Pods and The Yard Coworking in New York City. Essentially, it’s not our core business, but complementary.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

Kieran Snyder: We started off with a premise about AI and writing. We had initially wanted to begin with a performance review product or a more conventional marketing product, but we started off in recruiting for very practical reasons: 1) We cared about the problem and 2) We were pretty sure we were going to win.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

All right, here are the final five business Brahmins who will help judge the Startup Battlefield pitch competition. Prior to joining Yahoo, Lanzone was CEO of Tinder, the most popular app for meeting new people, as well as the highest grossing nongaming app, in the world. Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America can find it difficult to get the funds they need to export their goods to the United States. For small and medium businesses in trade, this is important for companies creating a high level of job growth and lowering the poverty rate,” Shoihet told TechCrunch. “By

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

HoneyBook, which has built out a client experience and financial management platform for service-based small businesses and freelancers, announced today that it has raised $155 million in a Series D round led by Durable Capital Partners LP. Members booked more than $1 billion in business on the platform in the past nine months alone. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

The direct-to-consumer business world continues to be noisy. It’s not enough to just start up a business and advertise on Google and Facebook: Today’s e-commerce merchants have to be masters of all channels. Your content needs to be great and you need to innovate and be smart about how you grow your business online.”

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Kyle York. The co-founder, CEO and managing partner at York IE , a strategic growth and investment firm for technology companies. Current York IE investment highlights include Cyberhaven, Flywheel, Canvs, HourWork, Metadata and Vetro. That is why we launched York IE. Be likable!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Hostovsky and his partner lived in a small New York City apartment, so they took a lot of photos to replicate how the Airbnb space was laid out. What a time to take a leap and start a company at the intersection of hospitality and physical retail, two industries that were getting decimated,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

On one side, restaurants, grocery stores, bakeries and other food businesses contribute surplus food items. It’s a win for everybody as businesses can generate a bit of revenue from surplus food, customers can buy food at great prices and it reduces unnecessary waste. 65,000 businesses have sold something on Too Good To Go so far.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Emerging entrepreneurs and small business owners who are developing a new, product, process, or software application – and need startup funding, need to know about the Ben Franklin program. Tech-startups and small manufacturers have been getting their “start” with Ben Franklin Technology Partners for nearly 40 years.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

These business deals are a substitute for unclear copyright and usage laws. Companies like the New York Times are willing to litigate this issue (at least as a negotiation strategy). Now is the time to act if we don’t want the New Bosses to look like the Old Bosses (or in most cases, be the exact same Bosses).

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Jason Malki

MARCH 6, 2024

Before getting into the space, he worked several years in the high-growth tech startup and music industries in New York but was not in games and was encouraged to wear suits, so instead, he quit that and went on to do what he loves in Southern California. It’s a time of great opportunity when it comes to building a games business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Peer-to-peer car sharing company Turo is expanding to New York State and France in June, the company said on Wednesday. Turo’s launch in New York follows the state legislature’s passing of SB 6715 in December 2021, a law that provides a regulatory framework for peer-to-peer car sharing operations in the state.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

At first, the company offered its services direct to consumer but by 2017, it had started working with employers so businesses could cover the cost of Wellthy as an employee benefit. It feels like mental health and women’s health have started to get some well-deserved attention but caregiving is still really under the radar.”

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

OCTOBER 31, 2022

These startups, located in the Harrisburg, York, and Lancaster regions will use the investment to leap from start-up to up-and-running. Envision Biomedical, LLC (York based) develops new contact lens polymers for lens manufacturers to help them address contact lens discomfort in users. SR Solutions, Inc. Representative P.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Or maybe because they are more high-profile, news of their layoffs makes a bigger splash? Stay tuned for a new section in upcoming newsletters that focuses on companies that are hiring, rather than laying off. I had the opportunity to interview new CEO Simon Khalaf, who shared with me the reasoning behind the purchase.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“The round was preempted by Tiger Global and Index Ventures as they saw strong indications of product-market fit and believed that the time was right to start scaling the business,” Wehmeyer said. ” Taktile, which employs a team of 45 people, has offices in New York, London and Berlin.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

All across the country, communities need to jump start and rebuild their economies. Research has shown that most new jobs come from young businesses. And yet, our economic policies espoused by governments and traditional economic development approaches continue to focus on attracting big businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Ross says that they are trying to position incident management as a business problem, rather than purely an engineering problem. “Obviously I believe that site reliability in general is going to be something that has an impact on the business no matter what. . How you react when your systems fail may define your business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

It’s only been three years since they hit the streets and Revel’s blue electric mopeds have already become a common sight in New York, San Francisco and a growing number of U.S. The company now operates more than 3,000 e-mopeds in New York City, and has another 3,000 across Washington, D.C., That’s a lot.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fractal has raised $360 million from TPG in a new financing round and entered the unicorn club as the Mumbai and New York-based AI startup, which counts Google and Wells Fargo among its customers, scales its offerings and begins preparation for an IPO. “We would like to become a public company sooner than later.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Sanitation for a healthier tomorrow FLUSH, a sanitation-solutions and women-owned business is a proud member of Impact Hub New York Metropolitan Area, a collaboration that amplifies their collective impact on transforming the role of sanitation in healthy, thriving societies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha are two coffee-obsessed friends who came to New York from Dubai and Lebanon to study at NYU and Columbia, respectively, and started researching the New York coffee scene. The new funding will go toward retail expansion, vendor partners and technology development.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Kapor Capital, under new leadership, closes its largest fund to date. Northzone began raising after the market dropped but was still able to secure funding from existing and new limited partners, he said. is really starting and only going to get bigger.”. As such, the firm decided to start small. “We Salkantay Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Tailor Brands , a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it has raised $50 million in Series C funding. Their platform truly helps entrepreneurs start their business quickly and easily with AI-powered logo design and branding services.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Thrive Capital has reportedly committed $1 billion in fresh capital to payments giant Stripe as part of a new investment in the works that would value the fintech company at between $55 billion and $60 billion. billion to $3 billion, according to reports from the New York Times and The Information.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. The startup currently offer users integration to local banking in the U.S.

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